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==1915 (Monday)==
*[[Battalion]] Order: {{quote-left}}In the afternoon baggage will be packed & barracks & lines cleaned under [[Company]] arrangements.{{quote-right}} <ref name="lowther135">{{lowther|recno=135}}</ref>
*Belgians repulsed at [[Driegrachten]].
*Battalion Order: {{quote-left}}[[NCO]]’s & men who are unfit to march with their Companies on Wednesday ([[7 April]]) but who are pronounced by the M.O. fit to proceed to Grantham, will be marched to the Station & entrained in a separate Compartment.{{quote-right}} <ref name="lowther135" />
*French make progress east of [[Verdun]], but are repulsed in the [[Argonne]].
*Russians make further progress in the [[Carpathians]].
*Union forces occupy [[Kalkfontein]] and Kamus (German south-west Africa).
*United States demands £46,000 for the sinking of ''William P. Frye''.
*[[King George V]] prohibits use of alcoholic drinks in any of the royal households.
*Mr. John Redmond addresses the National Volunteer Convention at [[Dublin]].
 
==Notes1916==
*Battalion situated in [[billet|billets]] in Senlis, resting and cleaning up.<ref>[[11th Battalion War Diary, April 1916]]</ref>
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==References==
==1918==
*Deaths: [[Thomas William Brakewell (24694 Pte.)]]<ref name="cwgc">{{CWGC+SDGW}}</ref>
 
==References / notes==
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==Acknowledgements==
 
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